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MariaThinks

(2,495 posts)
Mon May 30, 2016, 02:01 PM May 2016

Definition of Entitlement

People keep posting that Hillary feels entitled to the nomination. That she is imperial, wants everything handed to her.

As I'm finding, this accusation of Hillary is a complete fabrication. if entitlement was the issue, Hillary would not have busted her butt to become a Junior Senator - and she FINISHED her term. Then she ran for President but accepted Obama's candidacy BEFORE damaging the party or PERSONALLY attacking Obama. Then she accepted a position as SOS (turning away high paying speeches and book contracts). She finished that term too. That is the definition of hard work - NOT entitlement.

People say she was a republican in her youth - I think we're talking 1960s here.

Bernie, on the other hand, has not registered as a Democrat. Never ran for the President's office. He kind of declared last year/this year that he was going to run. All the primary rules are published. And yet he's complaining that the process is fixed and needs to be changed for him. HE NEVER COMPLAINED ABOUT IT BEFORE.

The is the definition of privilege and I would say white male privilege. He only believes he can lose because something is wrong with the system.

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Definition of Entitlement (Original Post) MariaThinks May 2016 OP
Yep. Bernie and his supporters are the ones who feel entitled Cali_Democrat May 2016 #1
bernie is used to being the big fish from the small pond and bullying anyone in his way nt msongs May 2016 #2
Entitlement is asking for the nomination when you've lost. CrowCityDem May 2016 #3
Don't let yourself be confused by facts! k8conant May 2016 #4
Did you just post an op-ed from Dick Morris? Cali_Democrat May 2016 #6
Dick Morris? CorkySt.Clair May 2016 #8
That's a huge tell. I think we've uncovered the truth about some bernie supporters MariaThinks May 2016 #10
you're quoting dick morris? MariaThinks May 2016 #9
how about "It's her turn?" hobbit709 May 2016 #5
Yeah? Scootaloo May 2016 #7
 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
1. Yep. Bernie and his supporters are the ones who feel entitled
Mon May 30, 2016, 02:03 PM
May 2016

They want the superdelegates to overturn the will of the people and install Bernie as the Dem nominee.

k8conant

(3,030 posts)
4. Don't let yourself be confused by facts!
Mon May 30, 2016, 02:25 PM
May 2016

I don't think you know the definition of entitlement.

Hard work?

Hillary only completed her 2nd term in the Senate because she didn't get the presidential nomination in 2008. She resigned as SOS after Obama's first term.

Yet, you say: "she FINISHED her term" and "She finished that term too".

You say Clinton "accepted Obama's candidacy BEFORE damaging the party or PERSONALLY attacking Obama".

Talk about rewriting history!!

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/04/30/clinton-smear-campaign-against-obama

MariaThinks

(2,495 posts)
10. That's a huge tell. I think we've uncovered the truth about some bernie supporters
Mon May 30, 2016, 02:41 PM
May 2016

and it's what I thought all along.


dick morris !

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
7. Yeah?
Mon May 30, 2016, 02:35 PM
May 2016

I'd call the party telling an actual New Yorker to step aside so Clinton can run for Senate in that state to be entitlement of the highest sort.

I'd also call turning a black man's church into a campaign issue to be a pretty personal attack.

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